my mythology pet peeve is when someone describes a scenario in which they keep nearly getting something and then having it snatched away, and everyone’s like “one must imagine sisyphus” no!!! one must imagine TANTALUS!!! sisyphus = being made to perform a pointless, aggravating task over and over without ever making any progress. tantalus = being offered a glorious reward only for it to vanish as soon as you reach for it. they are NOT the same
This is especially frustrating because the only reason we know the wind speed is because NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters literally fly into the hurricane and collect vital data. They fly in and out of the storm over and over in 8 hour shifts.
This brave team flies two identical Lockheed P3s called Kermit and Miss Piggy.
You can see the dangling ornaments in the videos to determine which plane they are in.
And when I say they fly into the hurricane, I mean they fly *into* the hurricane.
Here they are in the eye of Milton.
And here they are in the eye of Irma.
As you may notice, this flight was in Kermit.
So the next time you see live data about a hurricane’s wind speed and pressure, just remember how that was collected and don’t be a giant turd about it.
And please vote because conservatives want to kill NOAA.
we should be able to have clickmap polls that are on a 2 axis / 4 quadrant grid.
my MS paint recreation
I love the implication that there’s a direct correlation between gayness and liking salty foods - or, more specifically, the straighter you are, the more you dislike salt for some reason
I’ve never even heard of this before tho??? Wtf??????????
oh my god, I didn’t think there were any surviving versions of this post left
For those who weren’t around in the Deep Lore times, this is one of the relics of the editable post era. This post has THE SINGLE HIGHEST NOTES of ANY post on this site, bar none, but with more than a dozen variations. Every single post you’ve ever seen with more than 3 million notes has been a different version of this one.
This is the “Dean’s Gym Shorts” post. This is the Flubber post. This is the original “Reblog if you support gay people” post. it was ALL of them. before half the site got nuked, it had even more notes than it has now - at one point, well over 15 million, and that was years ago.
This, with no exaggeration, is the ONE TRUE heritage post
I’ve never even heard of this before tho??? Wtf??????????
oh my god, I didn’t think there were any surviving versions of this post left
For those who weren’t around in the Deep Lore times, this is one of the relics of the editable post era. This post has THE SINGLE HIGHEST NOTES of ANY post on this site, bar none, but with more than a dozen variations. Every single post you’ve ever seen with more than 3 million notes has been a different version of this one.
This is the “Dean’s Gym Shorts” post. This is the Flubber post. This is the original “Reblog if you support gay people” post. it was ALL of them. before half the site got nuked, it had even more notes than it has now - at one point, well over 15 million, and that was years ago.
This, with no exaggeration, is the ONE TRUE heritage post
artist in denial of being depressed: omg this 2 month long art block has been crazy… sorry i haven’t updated any of my fics in a long while! it’s just been super difficult to daydream! so weird that i’ve lost a little bit of passion for my current comfort character and ocs… this couldn’t possibly have any implications or alternative explanations
people saying some variation to “oh no” in the notes of this post are very funny but at the same time. i wish you a very Feel Better
Thought I would share this here. Image is a clickable link that will take you to the account that posted it! ID has now been corrected, and is in alt text. It is also below, please excuse the redundancy:
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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) tweeted: “No one can make you stay in an unsafe worksite. Close up and walk out with your coworkers until management or nature fixes the problem. Contact us for help.”
EWOC quoted their own tweet and added, “If your boss won’t let you evacuate: Convince as many coworkers as you can to all leave together & contact us right away. You have the right to organize & leave an unsafe worksite. If they’re not bluffing & still try to fire you after the storm, we’ll help you fight it.”
Attached to the OP is a meme of a skeleton marching away, titled “Just walk out - you can leave!” It lists, “wildfire smoke, hurricane, flooding, no heat, powers out, no water, tornado warning, AC broke, weird fumes.” Bottom text reads, “Climate sucks… hit da bricks!” Overlaid is the meme’s author, “@/organizeworkers.”
strangely common misconception that words have basically the same meanings in every langauge and that translation is just a matter of identifying which exact word in the target language corresponds to the word in the original language
there’s always a next book to read, a next show to see, a next concert to go to, another friend to meet, another treat to eat, there’s always more to discover or experience
this idea makes some people nervous but please it’s good that life isn’t a race it isn’t a video game you can finish it’s more like an endless open world exploration and if you open yourself up there’s always the next beautiful thing to discover
Happy National Coming Out Day! It’s been about half a year since our middle grade graphic novel, Lunar Boy, released! Today we want to reflect on the concept of Coming Out, and how it’s fictionalized in media.
Check out Lunar Boy wherever american graphic novels are sold, or check it out at a library! All the support means a lot with getting stories like this out there.
So there are several species of frogs that have evolved to be so small that their vestibular balance system doesn’t work well and I’m sorry but it’s the funniest thing to watch them try to jump.
ON THE SHOW “SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS,” THE KRABBY PATTIES THE TITULAR SPONGEBOB MAKES PROFESSIONALLY ARE, PER THE SERIES CREATOR, VEGETARIAN. THIS IS BECAUSE NICKELODEON HAD RULES FOR THE SPONGEBOB PRODUCTION TEAM AGAINST DEPICTING FISH AS FOOD FOR OTHER FISH. SOMETIMES THEY BROKE THIS RULE
So fun thing about this. My HS graduation we had 2 student speakers. One who was valedictorian and all that with honors, and another that was just a pretty average guy. He was very outgoing and most people knew him, and he wasn’t a terrible student, but he wasn’t A++ tier. Because of this, the decision was made he should give his speech first because obviously the more prestigious one would have a better speech I’m sure the adults thought. I honestly don’t know how he got chosen to give a speech other than the fact most people knew him, it was a new thing they were trying out that year to make the speeches resonate with the students more.
Well he knocked it out of the park. He came prepared, he had a big speech written with lots of jokes and chances for him to improv as he went along. The entire theme of his speech was about how mediocrity isn’t a bad thing: It’s the NORMAL. Not everyone is going to soar to great heights after graduation, and that is 100% OK. He looked at himself and basically admitted, “I don’t know why I’m giving this speech, I’m not a perfect student, and I’ve definitely done some things that got me in trouble, but life isn’t about being perfect.” All the students cheered for him whilst the adults were split. You could tell some understood his message and were laughing along with him, but the other half were just, “this is uncouth!” without saying it.
So the high honors student went after him. They were shocked. They had pretty much your standard speech about how to keep pushing on after graduating, but was nervous to even talk about it. Because the speech before them just basically refuted most of what they would say. The adults that wanted the traditional speech looked with even more ire to the student who went before with the speech about mediocrity because how dare he make the high honor student look bad. Some of the teachers invited him back onto the stage so he could help the other student speaker. Together they were able to keep the themes of his previous speech valid while allowing the next speech to still work. They worked together in real time to deliver a decent, albeit cliche, speech that most were expecting.
I don’t know what they did in years after that, as I do not remember my younger brother’s graduation from the same HS, but I think the lesson learned is the speech that resonates with people will be a better idea than giving what folks are expecting.
I hope both speech givers are doing good right now, they’re both very smart and savvy.
I was a pretty sickly kid. I’m a pretty sickly adult too I guess. But one of the issues I had was constant ear infections. I almost went deaf because I just had near continuous swelling and inflammation going on. I had tubes in my ears twice because they fell out the first time.
If you’re unfamiliar that’s where they put a tiny gauge in your inner ear to help force it open. It’s meant to stop water getting trapped back there. I had to put wax in my ears before contact with pools, baths, showers, anything, for years, to prevent water from slinking through that narrow channel and festering long enough to spawn bacteria.
It was miserable. To this day my inner ear is blighted with so much scar tissue that every single ear exam the doctor goes, “Woah.” You never want to hear a doctor say woah. It’s never good.
Eventually my constant rounds of antibiotics and misery was pinned on my tonsils. A doctor declared there was just too much ick hiding out in there and they had to go. I was about five or six at the time. Having surgery as a little kid is already pretty scary but I was determined to be brave. I’d already had vacuum suction tools used on my inner ear weekly a practice so painful it’s banned now. I was also promised a coveted troll dinosaur for good behavior.
So I walked tremulously into the hospital to have an organ removed. By all accounts I comported myself admirably. Afterward I was coming out of anesthesia quite slowly. The nurse was carrying me back to my parents when I rasped a whispery, “Knock knock,” at her.
She paused and looked down at me, “What?”
A little stronger I repeated, “Knock knock.”
She was shocked her tiny patient was trying to tell a joke while higher than a kite but dutifully said, “Who’s there?”
“Adam,” I said in a wavery little voice.
She leaned closer to hear me, “Adam who?”
I bellowed through my raw throat, still freshly bleeding from surgery, “Adam my way, I’m gettin’ outta here!”
The nurse had to stop she was laughing so hard and she was in hysterics when she delivered me back to me parents, repeating the whole episode to them, turning their anxiety into delight that their doped up child was a comedy genius.
No one knew where I’d learned the joke, but it was a staple story throughout my childhood.
there’s something very scary about the way we argue and entertain discourse on israel or on settler colonialism when, on the ground, israel has totally isolated northern gaza and is currently systemically liquidating jabalia (a refugee camp in northern gaza) just as they have, from the very beginning, said they would do. just as large swathes of israel came to be in 1948, to 1967, to the west bank today. there’s something scary about watching indigenous people undergo a genocide in real-time in 2024 like they’re squatters on some prime property while nobody moves except to argue about semantics. there’s something scary about people being trapped and killed like fish in a barrel while you can text them and follow them on social media and watch their pleas in video as soldiers and tanks come closer. what the hell is this
i don’t really understand how the news can describe the process of genocide in such stark terms and call it a “controversial plan” instead of what it is: a horrifying crime against humanity.
There’s a certain sort of reader who thinks of everything in tropes and also hates tropes. So as soon as a character is introduced, they’ll pigeon hole that person into the nearest applicable archetype, then complain about it.
I think part of this comes from maladaptive novelty-seeking, the kind of guy who wants just once for the villain to win at the end, for the romance to tear itself apart in the 11th hour and never be repaired, who wants “realism” but not actually realism, just subversion because at least that would be different.
My cousin is one of those guys. He’s much younger than me, still in college, but we were talking at a family get together, and he expressed disdain at the very concept of a work of fiction having conflict in it, at the building of tension before its release, at character arcs or even development.
So I asked him what it was he wanted from a story, out of professional curiosity, and he said, “I want,” and then he bit his lip and grabbed at the air like he was going to pull it out of the aether.
I never figured out what it was he actually wanted, but I sometimes try to rotate the problem in my head, like I’m going to be able to see the shape of the solution if I just spend enough time working at it.
It’s a huge untapped market: people who like reading but don’t seem to like any of the things stories have.
Had to not only boot windows back up after months but upgrade to 11 for a job and ugh oogh pleh hold my hand aauuuugh this is not a healthy environment for the animal
recently when im tempted to say ‘i’m gonna kill myself’ i try to correct it into saying “im gonna walk into the river and become a trout” or some other form of that. this is my new thing
btw this has graduated into me just saying “the trout population will be affected” and then not elaborating
Hey there! As social media becomes more and more inhospitible for the local user, I wanted to post some useful/fun links to just about anything I can think of! Enjoy! Also, if you’d like an invite to the P!rated Games discord, lmk! ^_^
I AM CURRENTLY STILL UPDATING THIS POST AND I WILL REBLOG IT WHEN I ADD TO IT! Feel free to comment things I’ve missed, I’m sure there’s way more than this came from!
WEB CENTRIC
CURLIE: THE COLLECTOR OF URLs (Curlie strives to be the largest human-edited directory of the Web. You can save sites and create your own mini webring!)
Internet Archive (A collection of over 818 Billion websites, books, movies, music, and more. Hosts the Wayback Machine, which can be used to access a multitude of sites, given they were indexed in time.)
Wiby (Human submission search engine for older webrings, as well as a how-to guide on how to develop your own search engine)
Unicode Text Converter (Easy way to make your text illegible to Google but be warned, it will make screen readers malfuction)
Embed Responsively (Easily convert links and embeds to work responsively within your site - perfect for neocities!)
Generator Land(Generate a list or prompt for just about anything!)
GifCities (Part of the Internet Archive, a special project done as part of the 20th anniversary in an effort to save data from GeoCities. Find a gif for just about anything!)
Animated Images (Another gif repository, though this one is easier to search and includes small animations.)
Gifs-Paradise (Another gif repository. I swear I collect these. Searchable and categorized.)
Sadgrl Webrings (Webrings brought to us by Sadgrl.Online - 60+ different ones to be exact) and Sadgrl Links (70+ links just like the ones in this post)
Districts at Neocities(Remember neighborhoods on Geocities? Imagine that but for Neocities!)
Neocities Banners(Banners from all across neocities. Blinkies, banners and more leading all over the web. Mostly 88x31, though there are bigger ones too. Technically counts as a webring.)
Blinkies.cafe (Site for blinkies where you can even make your own! I get most of my blinkies here and off DeviantArt.)
88x31 Collection (Possibly the largest collection I’ve seen for 88x31 buttons)
90’s Cursor Effects (Want a funky cursor for your blog or website? Wanna be able to realtime preview what cursors would look like? Come get some code!)
The Malware Museum (Interact with malware and viruses from the 80s and 90s through emulation! No nasty virus interactions needed :D )
KNOWLEDGE BASES
Library Genesis - LIBGEN (Scientific journals - dedicated to archiving every science journal and their articles in existence.)
Information Mesh (A web platform celebrating the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web that explores social, technical, cultural and legal facts throughout different interactive timelines.)
Web Design Museum (Over 2,000 sorted websites showing web design trends from ‘96 to '06.)
The History of the Web (A twice monthly newsletter about web history, and the incredible people that built it. Goes from 1989 to present.)
Field Guide to Web Accessibility (Principles and applications to every day web scenarios in order to make the web a more friendly place!)
CARI - Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute (an online community and collective association of researchers and designers dedicated to carrying on the important work of categorizing “consumer aesthetics” from the late midcentury, when work on the subject somewhat trailed off, through today.)
The Eye (Archive consisting of 140TB of books, websites, games, software, or anything else you can really think of.)
The Uncensored Library (A project from Reporters without Borders, where they use a loophole using Minecraft to distribute information.)
National Gallery of Art Public Domain (The National Gallery of Art has an open access policy for images of works of art in their permanent collection which the Gallery believes to be in the public domain. Images of these works are available for download free of charge for any use, whether commercial or non-commercial.)
Library of Congress Public Domain (Features items from the Library’s digital collections that are free to use and reuse. The Library believes that this content is either in the public domain, has no known copyright, or has been cleared by the copyright owner for public use.)
Public Domain Review (an online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas.)
New York Public Library Public Domain (Our digitized collections are available as machine-readable data: over one million records for you to search, crawl and compute.)
Official articles from NASA(PubSpace is NASA’s designated public access repository. It is a collection of NASA-funded scholarly publications within the STI Repository, aiming to increase access to federally funded research in accordance with NASA Public Access Policy.)
Universal Hint System(Wanna get some vague help for an older video game without getting spoiled? Check out these awesome hints!)
Smithsonian Open Access(Download, share, and reuse millions of 2D and 3D digital items from their 21 museums, 9 research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.)
Instructables (Wanna know how to make just about anything? Check here!)
QZAP Zine Archive (Archive of LGBT+ Zines, began in 2003 with zines dating back all the way to the 1970s. NSFW AT TIMES, BROWSE AT YOUR OWN RISK.)
P!racy Masterpost (Tumblr-based masterpost of game piracy, last updated 2021. A bit old but some of the stuff there is still good. If this link breaks, please contact me.)
P!rated Games Megathread (masterpost created by r/P!ratedGames includes required components as well as anything else you need. NOTE: PLEASE HAVE SOME SORT OF PROTECTION WHEN NAVIGATING THIS SITE)
Geocities Gallery (A website hosting a working archive for many abandoned Geocities Sites.)
Snipplr (Code Snippet repository. Great for coding issues.)
GeoCities (Archived) (Great for searching ancient webrings for gifs and website ideas. Not so great for downloads.)
Freeware Guide (Archived) (The Freeware-Guide died sometime in 2021 [we think March] but it’s still full of VERY valuable information. Links are broken pretty much all the way through, but the names of software as well as what they do can be useful in finding them elsewhere thru some google searching)
Peelopaalu (Where I got a good handful of these links - AND THERE’S MORE!!!)
Untitled - Paint(An in-browser version of classic Microsoft Paint!)
KidPix (In-browser version of classic KidPix for the public domain!)
Pixel Logic - A Guide to Pixel Art(Comprehensive guide to making cool art for $10 USD, updated semi-frequently and you get all new versions for free)
SAI - Bootlegged(A version of SAI with a multitude of brushes and textures pre-installed. Quite literally the only thing I use to draw aside from Clip Studio Paint.)
Stripe Generator (Need some easy stripes for an art piece? Can’t be bothered to try and space stripes evenly? This is for you!)
Photopea(Free online photo editor supporting files for Adobe Photoshop, XCF, Sketch App, Adobe XD, and CorelDRAW, as well as many more!)
blender (A FOREVER free and Open Source software for 3D Modeling, full of tutorials and assets. I feel like most people don’t know it’s completely free to play with)
Vertex Meadow (A web-browser tool that renders 2D images as explorable 3D terrain. With it you can create detailed and unusual 3D environments to explore using a 2D paint-program-like interface.)
OpenGameArt (Need art for your game but you’re not an artist? Consider checking here first [or just hire a real artist looking for work on here!])
MUSIC TOOLS AND DISCOVERY
BandLab(Social music platform that enables creators to make music and share their creative process with musicians and fans. Completely free with an option to set up stripe where you get 100% OF PROFITS. Available for apple/android/desktop)
JummBox (Free online beat-maker with a very simple interface that runs on your browser)
Mydora (Mydora is a continuous streaming player that gives you a deep dive into the lost archives of Myspace Music, based on some recovered data called the Dragon Hoard, with some additional metadata (most notably the locations and genres) from a different scan of Myspace conducted back in 2009. Contains 490,000+ songs, only a fraction of what was wiped out.)
Radiooooo (A place where people are able to play hit songs from the decade of their choosing from whatever country they wish.)
WFMU (Independent freeform radio broadcasting. Currently ongoing.)
Gnoosic (A sort-of music search engine that finds you songs/bands based off of your music taste.)
Khinsider (3.1 TB worth of video game soundtracks)
Radio.garden (Listen to thousands of radio stations all around the world.)
FUN STUFF
FrogLand (The purpose of Frogland is to show that the Internet can indeed provide a wealth of useful information and still be fun. Mainly, this site is dedicated to the many teachers out there who are finding new uses for the Internet as a tool for educating youngsters. Hopefully, it will inspire some young minds to find new interest in herpetology, biology, and environmental issues…not to mention providing some inspiration for young future computer “wizzes”! No longer active but still useful.)
Windows 98 icon Viewer(Want clear jpgs of all the Windows 98 symbols and icons? They’re all here!)
GifyPet (Create your own embeded pet that people can play with and feed when they visit your page! See my version HERE [only works on desktop tho])
Ultimate Mushroom (Like the idea of picking mushrooms in your area but no idea what to look for? Check out this info hub!)
Gif Gallery (Another gif repositiory, only sorted by being numbered 1-100,000. Fun and silly, not so much useful unless you’re looking for random gifs. Part of the MelonLand Webring)
Tiled Backgrounds (Need some small jpegs for easy website bg tiling? Browse this collection sorted by color.)
cOOl & EMO tEXt cOnVERTer xXX (Flashing warning. Wanna type like you’re in the 2000s? Need a funny Green Day lyric as a caption? This is probably the best place for you.)
0x40 (Flashing Warning. Anime images synced with music. Fun for parties, lol)
WebGL Fluid Simulation (In browser fluid simulator, great for art backgrounds and desktop wallpapers.)
Flashpoint (The biggest collection of preserved Flash Games and Animations)
NCase (Free games and open source projects from Nicky [THESE ARE REALLY COOL AND FUN, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND])
Your World of Text (A huge interactive text doc that anyone can add to anonymously.)
Text To Speech (TTS in more than 30 languages and over 180 voices.)
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